Word: isolationist
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...wars. Coming Home and Apocalypse Now are two examples. These movies also have a simplistic and unyielding world view: that America's anti-communist ideology is intellectually immature and therefore our wars against communism are immoral crimes against humanity. Yet I have never heard anyone describe such militarily isolationist views as "reasonless xenophobia." It seems that the same people who so detest Sylvester Stallone's simplistic analysis of the world especially approve of these movies. If the film simplistically denigrates and villifies American values and actions, it is proper and laudable. If it simplistically glorifies American values and institutions, then...
...cultural radicalism against consumerism were to spring up as it did 20 years ago, it would have to be less isolationist. Capitalism has helped build industries which increase human lifespans while at the same time promoting major social inequalities. Likewise, consumerism drags along a lot of dehumanization, but it also forces people to interact with each other. The choice is ours: to bash consumerism or to use the opportunity for progressive ends...
Conservative Protestant spokesmen, captive to their isolationist and even | extremist past, still exhibit far more skill at seizing attention and infuriating outsiders than at winning support from concerned Americans through cogent, reasonable discussion. The Rev. Jerry Falwell shares some of those limitations, and he displayed them last week. But at other times his reliable instincts tell him that a broad appeal is necessary, since Fundamentalists by themselves can never reshape a variegated nation. Only the American people, collectively, can produce a moral majority...
...father died when he was seven, and the boy was dedicated to his grandfather, the Senator who helped keep the U.S. out of the League of Nations after World War I and for whom young Cabot was named. In his early years serving in the Senate, Lodge was an isolationist like his forebear, but during World War II, he quit his Senate post to fight in the European theater. By the time he was re-elected to the Senate in 1946, he was an internationalist, convinced that the war had taught "the value of collective security." In the early 1950s...
Afundamental issue underlies these concerns: the authority of the papacy. In a pre-Christmas address to the Curia (Vatican bureaucracy), John Paul applauded "wholesome pluralism" within the church. But he warned against the dangers of "isolationist" and "centrifugal" forces that threaten the unity of Catholicism. The mission of the Pope and the Holy See, he said, "consists precisely in serving . . . universal unity." The center, in other words, must remain the center: Rome must decide what is Catholic and what...